The IEEE Advanced Networks and Telecommunication Systems (ANTS) conference focussing on Telecommunications will be held at IIT Bombay, in Mumbai India, this December 15-17, 2008.

IEEE ANTS 2008 is the only major IEEE Communication Society conference in India, with a view to bring together top industry and academic folks from the Telecommunications Industry.

Conference URL: www.ieee-ants.org

Program highlights:

** 6 Exciting keynotes

* Arun Netravali (President Emeritus Bell Laboratories, currently at OmniVC)

* Kishor Chaukar (Managing Director at Tata Sons)

* I. Vijaya Kumar (CTO Wipro Technologies)

* Krishan Sabnani (SVP Alcatel-Lucent)

* Randy Smerik (Senior Vice President and GM, Networking Components Group LSI)

* Benoit Simon, (Head of Operations, Orange Telecom)

** 25 Invited talks.

* Suraj Shetty, Vice President, Cisco Systems, USA, Stan Lumish, former CTO, JDSU, USA, Kanwal Jawanda, Vice President, Ciena, India, Vivek Kulkarni, Manager, Siemens, Germany, Kalimani Venkatesan, Manager, Wipro, India, Kevin Vachon, Chief Operating Officer Metro Ethernet Forum, Canada, Inder Monga, Director, CTO office, Nortel Networks, USA, Andre Richter, Director, VPI Photonics, USA, Piet Demeester, Professor, Ghent University - IBBT, Belgium, Milorad Cvijetic, Director NEC America, USA, Chandramouleeswaran Sankaran, Manager, LSI Inc., India, Atul Srivastava, CEO, One Terabit Inc., USA, Juan Pedro, Orange Telecom, Spain, Andy Chinmulgund, SVP, 2Wire Inc. USA, Sudhir Dixit, Director, Research in Motion (RIM) USA, Vinay Ribero, Faculty, IIT Delhi, Raj Jain, Faculty, Professor, Ohio State University, USA, Arun Somani, Anston Martin Distinguished Professor, Iowa State University, USA, Weisheng Hu, Professor, Shanghai Jiao tong University, China, Ashit Talukdar, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, (JPL), USA, Venky Krishnaswamy, Director, Avaya Laboratories, NJ, USA, Lena Wosinska, Professor, Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Sweden, Krishnaiyan Thulisaraman, Hitachi Chair Professor, University of Oklahoma, USA, H. S. Jamadagni, Professor, Indian Institute of Science (IISC) Bangalore, Vijay Yadav, Managing Director, UT-Starcom, India, Girija Naralikar, Bell Laboratories, C. S. Rao, Intel Inc. USA, Bhaskar Ramamurthi, Professor and Dean, IIT Madras, Neelesh Mehta, IISc, Rob Roy Wi2Wi, USA.

** 35 Regular contributed talks.

** 20 Posters

** 4 panels (service provider, unified communications, telecom opportunities and telecommunications research)

** Venue: FC. Kohli Auditorium, IIT Bombay.

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